“And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.”
When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelek king of the Philistines looked down from a window and saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah. The deception is exposed through observation rather than through the dangerous episode of Genesis 20. Abimelek sees through the window what Isaac has been hiding. Numbers 32:23 warns that your sin will find you out. The application: sustained deception in a contained community eventually produces the visible evidence that exposes it. Isaac thought he could maintain the fiction; Abimelek looks down from a window.
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